Quantitative analysis of MR images is becoming increasingly important as a surrogate marker in clinical trials in multiple sclerosis (MS). This paper describes a fully automated model-based method for segmentation of MS lesions from multi-channel MR images. The method simultaneously corrects for MR eld inhomogeneities, estimates tissue class distribution parameters and classiies the image voxel...

Consider a set of 6 points in R × {0, 1}: {(−1, 1), (−1, 1), (−2, 1), (−3, 0), (−3, 0), (−3, 0)}, and suppose we are interested in Prec@1. Note that the optimum model that maximizes prec@1 on these points has a positive sign. We will now show that the model w∗ ∈ R that maximizes the above structural SVM surrogate on these points has a negative sign. On the contrary, let us assume that w∗ has a ...

The aim of the demo is threefold. First, it introduces the current version of the annotation tool for discourse relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank 3.0. Second, it presents the discourse relations in the treebank themselves, including new additions in comparison with the previous release. And third, it shows how to search in the treebank, with focus on the discourse relations.

A woman who has been rendered infertile by a defendant’s wrong may wish to obtain damages for the cost of becoming parent through surrogacy arrangement. Such claim, which yet be brought before an Australian court, would raise two partially overlapping issues under law. First, claim must satisfy general requirement that person suffered personal injury can only recover expenses are necessary and ...

The subject of the study is regulatory and legal provisions surrogacy in Russian Federation, Ukraine, Republic Belarus Moldova. object this concept essence as a method assisted reproductive technologies accordance with current legislation Federation CIS countries under consideration. methodological basis represented by set methods scientific cognition objective reality applied course preparatio...

Different initiatives are initiated to utilize ICT to maintain and develop democracy. Democracy models are developed to explain differences between different democracies. This paper reports from a case study where a webbased discussion board is developed and implemented. The findings indicate that politicians and citizens add support to different democracy models by their contributions to the w...

Data fusion is the final step of a typical data integration process, after schematic conflicts have been overcome and after duplicates have been correctly identified. We present the relational data fusion system FuSem, which uses schema mappings and information about duplicates to decide what to fuse, i.e., which tuples to merge into one. The aspect emphasized by the demo is how to fuse the dup...

In the demo, we demonstrate a mobile food recognition system with Fisher Vector and liner one-vs-rest SVMs which enable us to record our food habits easily. In the experiments with 100 kinds of food categories, we have achieved the 79.2% classification rate for the top 5 category candidates when the ground-truth bounding boxes are given. The prototype system is open to the public as an Android-...

Fourier surrogate data are artificially generated time series, that — based on a resampling scheme — share the linear properties with an observed time series. In this paper we study a statistical surrogate hypothesis test to detect deviations from a linear Gaussian process with respect to asymmetry in time (Q-statistic). We apply this test to a Fourier representable function and obtain a repres...

This article describes model-based methods for global optimization. After introducing the global optimization framework, modeling approaches for stochastic algorithms are presented. We differentiate between models that use a distribution and models that use an explicit surrogate model. Fundamental aspects of and recent advances in surrogate-model based optimization are discussed. Strategies for...